#OccupyNigeria: What Nigerians are saying about fuel subsidy removal

In January 2012, Nigerians, regardless of ethnic or religious affiliation, displayed an uncommon solidarity when they came out in mass to protest the removal of fuel subsidy by the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Although the Jonathan administration had, at the time, implored Nigerians to see reasons why removing the fuel subsidy and allowing market forces to determine the price of the product, Nigerians were not ready to listen neither did they care to understand the complexities of the fuel subsidy payments.

Fast forward to the present, the said subsidy has been removed and the price of fuel product bench-marked at a ceiling price of #145 by the President Buhari administration.

At the time of the protest in 2012, the then opposition parties -that later banded together to form the ruling All Progressive Congress, effectively ending the era of the Peoples Democratic Party- had harped on the fuel subsidy crisis, condemning its removal in the strongest possible terms.

Now the APC party is in power and have removed the same subsidy regime, having seen and understood why the subsidy should be removed.

Here are the reactions of Nigerians on Twitter using #OccupyNigeria:

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